Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS | Date | Wed, 7 Sep 2005 00:21:29 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 07 September 2005 00:19, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> Andi, their stack will have to have a valid thread_info->task because > interrupts will use it. Out of interest, could you please explain what > for?
No, with 4k interrupts run on their own stack with their own thread_info Or rather they mostly do. Currently do_IRQ does irq_enter which refers thread_info before switching to the interrupt stack, that order would likely need to be exchanged.
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